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Congress has mandated that the Trump administration release a trove of Epstein-related files by tomorrow – and the Justice Department is racing to process thousands of pages of documents and images.

In an exclusive, CNN reports that the Justice Department is racing to redact thousands of pages in oder to protect victims, and address executive and legal privacy concerns. Per CNN, counterintelligence specialists “ were asked to drop nearly all of their other work”.

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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 36 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

This is just hilarious, at this point. They had a team of over a thousand FBI analysts going through these files for months, flagging all instances where Trump's name came up. Apparently, he was mentioned so often, that they simply decided that they couldn't release any of it.

Now they're being forced to release it all, and here we are months later...and they're still struggling to redact all mention of Trump. Seriously, how deep up Epstein's ass did he go? Was his name on every single page?

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 16 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

And shouldn't they only be retracting the victims names, not the perpetrators.

And it's not like we aren't all going to replace "redacted" with Trump, in every instance it would fit anyway.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 hours ago

I think it's not just Trump. They said something along the lines of releasing it would have catastrophic political consequences.

I imagine they are trying to balance redacting enough so that the redactions themselves won't cause enough of an outrage so that the unredacted stuff needs to be released, redact stuff in a way that none of the various cliques in both parties feels slighted enough to flip the table.

Add to it that there are probably international contacts in there as well, so an unredacted release could topple US-friendly regimes worldwide. And then the backchannels are probably being lit up constantly by scared rapists with wealth or contacts.